Gender and Science Expertise

Effective strategies for gender equality in science

Dr Elizabeth Pollitzer is a leading expert on gender, STEM and innovation. She was a founding member of Portia in 1997 and has been active in the gender and science field for over 15 years. Elizabeth’s background is in Computing and Biophysics, with many years spent both teaching and researching in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, University of London. She now heads up Portia Ltd UK and jointly leads the development of the Gender Summits - Quality Research and Innovation - global platform.

The area where we have special interest and knowledge concerns research evidence showing how the inclusion of gender as a dimension of research and innovation process can enhance quality and impact of scientific endeavour.

Portia has developed an extensive network of experts and highly experienced practitioners in the area of gender and science and works in consultation and collaboration with them on problems requiring in-depth analysis on specific issues. We prepared a review of this evidence as part of a report for the Gender Summit 2012 entitled From Ideas to Markets: The Gender Factor.

Gender in Horizon 2020 and other programmes

Dr Pollitzer also acts as an gender expert consulting on the integration of gender in research proposals and other programmes, with particular knowledge of Gender in Horizon 2020, applying both her expertise in gender programme efficacy and the gender dimension in research content. In addition to her extensive expertise, Portia can also call upon its large network of gender experts in specific disciplines, where appropriate.

Please contact us if you would like to discuss how we can help you embed gender throughout your proposals.

Talk: From Evidence to Consensus, Recommendations, and Standards: lesson from the genSET projectTalk: Scenario Building Method as a tool for Supporting career Decisions in Science - Comparing Germany and IsraelBook of abstracts (pdf)